Law Blog Archive

Heather Tesoriero, The Wall Street Journal reporter covering the Merck Vioxx litigation, has switched painkillers. Today she tells us about the first product-liability trial involving Pfizer's Celebrex. Set for June 6 in Alabama state court, the case was brought by Rosie Ware, a resident of Barbour County, Ala., who says Celebrex caused her 2005 stroke. Montgomery, Ala.'s Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, the law firm that recently lost the first federal Vioxx trial, is representing...